You might be wondering why I'm posting more about Facebook games lately. No, I didn't give up on MMORPGs and more complicated single-player games. It's just that I'm on holiday until Easter, visiting family. As family visits tend to go, I have very little time for myself, and spend a lot of time with others. Thus something like a 5-hour raid would be totally unthinkable, and even half an hour uninterrupted for an heroic is hard to find. I am completely aware of the various negative aspects of Facebook games, but the one advantage they have is that you can do things in them if you have just 10 minutes here and there.

I would be interested in a post about time management and playing MMORPG's for busy/family/adult folks.

When I'm home with my wife, she actually expects me to pay attention to her. I can sneak play time in here and there as long as I can get up at a moments notice to respond to her. Even just conversationally.

Most married people w/ families wouldn't find that odd at all. Kid screams, get up. Phone rings, wife bellows "can you get that?", you get it. Wife yells "hey, come look at this", you do. Dog gives you that pleading "play with me" look. If you ignore those things, you might find yourself missing life, or alone.

Makes heroics & raids an endeavor that needs to be scheduled. Before the Dungeon Finder, I never ran a single instance other than raids on my scheduled night.

My dear wife gives me Wednesday nights uninterrupted. If she goes shopping on a Sunday afternoon, I might get in a few heroic runs.

I've seen rage against many of the "casual-friendly" changes to WoW, intimating that it's for slackers or stupid, lazy players.

But it really helps those of us that want to play and play well, but have limited spans of 2-4 hours uninterrupted.